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Lot 64

A Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistols (Celina Or Ledenica)
Boka Kotorska Or Northern Albanian, 19th Century

17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Pair Of Balkan 18-Bore Miquelet-Lock Pistols (Celina Or Ledenica)
Boka Kotorska Or Northern Albanian, 19th Century

With earlier barrels (some wear and light rust patination), one with traces of chiselled decoration at the breech within a border of waved silver-inlaid lines, characteristic locks, silver full stocks with curved butts and bulbous pommels cast and chased overall with scrolling foliage in relief, tang covers, trigger-guards and pierced muzzle-sleeves all en suite, and original steel ramrod (the other replaced) (2)
33.4 cm. and 34 cm. barrels

Footnotes

See Robert Elgood, The Arms of Greece..., 2009, pp. 92-93, figs. 83-90

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